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and many other airlines were flying over the city of San Diego to land on Runway 27. We were also in perfect posi- tion to “judge” their landings.
As is often the case when you see something, it pops up again. A few days later we had a flight from Ft Lauderdale, FL to John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA. After dropping off passengers we reposition the airplane from KSNA to KSBA Santa Barbara, CA 135 miles up the coast that required a flight around Los Angeles Airport. This time we filed the Costal CSTP28 TEC route. I was much quicker to decipher the route as “KSNA SXC V208 VTU KWANG KSBA”.
We are not having much success finding sunshine on this trip. The California coastline is still overcast, and Florida was having torrential rains. We headed to the Ca- ribbean the next day, where we finally had better luck. We had just escaped Florida where Ft Lauderdale received a record breaking 13.4 inches of rain in 24-hour period and we received record breaking delays.
Ed Verville is an experienced FAA instructor and examiner for business jet pilots and aircrew programs. He has 15,000 flight hours in more than 100 different makes and models and holds type ratings in the Bombardier CL-65, CL-30, CL-604, and Boeing 747. Ed has been instructing RNP-AR Approaches for the past three years.
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